Bengali Poetry (Translated)

Departure


The one I loved,
and love still,
one day I saw
leaving...
so slowly, so carefully...
leaving.
⁠
The way the sun rises, the way it sets,
just like that...she was leaving.
⁠
After she left,
the pain of staying alive
was sharper
than it had ever been.
⁠
She left, yet
fragments of her being
remained
scattered.
⁠
The way birds
drop feathers
and fly away,
like that...she left
memories behind.
⁠
Like sun-burnt marks
that stay on skin,
...she too
stayed.
⁠
Being nowhere,
yet everywhere
she alone was.
And still is.
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